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 * Henry Lansdell (pictured) distributed multi-lingual religious tracts and Bibles in hospitals and prisons in Siberia and central Asia.


 * Lisa Cristiani was the first European to hold public musical concerts in Siberia.


 * Physicist Kurt Gottfried worked on behalf of Russian dissident Yuri Orlov to obtain his release from Siberia and employment at Cornell University.